Did anyone noticed that small fonts are unreadable small? For example size 8 is uber small but something about 12 is smaller than 11, after reverting the patches everything is all right. Openbox's menu and qt4 apps was unreadable._________________BitBucket -- better-initramfs

The default "looks" close but subpixel rendering is quite different from ubuntu (and the result worse, imo). Inifinality is bolder and blurrier but close up subpixel rendering appears to be the same in principle. Changing the profile to default, osx or inifinality didn't help with that. "windows" is thinner, but jagged.

Is there a way to get exactly the same rendering (or better of course;) as in Ubuntu? In case I just had to change config files, I think those should be part of the default settings because well, ubuntu is supposed to look like ubuntu, right?

Another question:
Several patches that used to be required have been upstreamed. Apart from config files, what patches do I need if I just want to copy the Ubuntu rendering but don't want Infinality? Does the overlay even support that and contain all the necessary patches or are we all supposed to use infinality?

There's libXft-2.2.0-ubuntu.patch and cairo-1.10.2-ubuntu.patch but they are only required if apps depend on cairo and libXft
fontconfig-2.8.0-ubuntu.patch is only config related.
http://gitorious.org/lcd-filtering/lcd-filtering/trees/master/media-libs/freetype/files doesn't contain anything obviously coming from Ubuntu. Does that mean for non cairo apps Gentoo already uses the same rendering as Ubuntu and the only difference is configuration?

Edit:
I replaced the whole /etc/fonts with the content of an Ubuntu installation. That did not take care of the bolder ubuntu font. I only conclude it's not "just edit your .fontsconfig".

Another screenshot, Firefox chrome, very subtle except for some characters like the "w". http://imgur.com/a/FxbTK (upper one is gentoo, click to zoom)
So close, but not perfect

Also... for purpose of improving font rendering in firefox:
Is compiling firefox with --enable-system-cairo relevant in Feb 2012?
If so, what is best way to do it?
I tried modifying the ebuild and then running
`ebuild firefox-10.0.1.ebuild manifest`
to satsify the integrity check for firefox-10.0.1 ebuild, but then had to wait forever.
It took a very long time as it appeared to have download the source for every
firefox ebuild in the /usr/portage/www-client/firefox directory.
(I would like to avoid that next time)
Can I update a single ebuild's integrity check more quickly (next time) or was this the only way?